A little film about Bruce Conner and the making of a promo film for Toni Basil's 1966 single "Breakaway" (which is apparently a Northern Soul classic)
Toni Basil, genius choreographer, had another intersection with the avant-garde - her work with a bodybopping crew called The Electric Boogaloos influenced Byrne & Eno in the early stages of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.
Byrne - who dated Basil for a while - told me that initially he and Eno imagined the music as the soundtrack to a film she was making with the dance troupe.
I tried to interview Toni when I did the big piece on Eno and his New York years but no luck.
Here's a whole BBC special of avant-tinged dance fun she did in the 1980s
Here's her video album which starts with a fun Noo Wavey version of Bacharach + David's "My Little Red Book" as also covered by Love
Of course mostly she is known for this
Is "Mickey" - the intro at least - part of the continuum of Diddleybeat?
I suppose it's more rightly considered a post-"My Sharona" move
And a kind of jock jam - or jill jam.
Farfisa-y - could not be more Noo Wave really
More Boogaloo
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